This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Gomez now faces calls from leaders against sexual and domestic violence in the district he recently moved into to run for office, to give the money to a charity serving local survivors.

"I am utterly appalled to learn that Assembly candidate Jimmy Gomez took a four-figure contribution from a politician, Assemblymember Roger Hernandez, who beat his girlfriend and is under a restraining order," said Alva Moreno, former Board President of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and a longtime leader in victims' assistance and stopping sexual and domestic violence in the communities of the 51st District.

"I am tired of the general ignorance, hostility, and indifference of politicians to the facts of sexual and domestic violence and its consequences on the health and lives of women.

"If Jimmy Gomez has a shred of decency, he would donate all the money he took from Roger Hernandez to a charity here in his new district working to help people overcome the trauma of domestic abuse. It is the least he owes to the hundreds of survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the communities of Northeast Los Angeles and East L.A."